The Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746 (20 Geo. II c. 43) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. It abolished the traditional judicial rights afforded to a Scottish clan chief. The long title of the Act, which sets out the scheme and intention, is: Article XX of the Union with England Act, 1707, had recognized these jurisdictions and other heritable offices as rights of property which the continued in spite of the union, and so on abolition compensation was paid to the deprived heritors.